Sunday, September 18, 2016

Lawmaker says abuse investigations target 2 Pennsylvania dioceses

A state lawmaker who says he was abused by a suburban Philadelphia
priest more than three decades ago now says state prosecutors are
investigating priest abuse accusations in that diocese and another in
Pennsylvania’s capital.Democratic state Rep. Mark Rozzi says the state attorney general’s
office has a grand jury investigating the Roman Catholic Diocese of
Allentown and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg.

Rozzi says he testified several weeks ago in Pittsburgh.

He declined to provide details.

A March report uncovered hundreds of abuse cases in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown that spanned decades.

A spokesman for the Harrisburg diocese tells The Morning Call it has received a subpoena from the grand jury.

The Allentown diocese and the state attorney general’s office wouldn’t confirm the investigation.